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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Installing multiple independent wordpress sites in subdirectoriesI do appreciate the advice and I will be looking into different options, even if it means switching things up on the hosting side. Although I was really hoping there was a way to make this work with using three different subfolders within my root. It sounds like people do that. I just don’t understand how to point different domains to different folders without placing multiple copies of the index.php file in the root.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Installing multiple independent wordpress sites in subdirectoriesSorry, that’s my bad for specifically asking. Just trying to figure out the best course of action.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Installing multiple independent wordpress sites in subdirectoriesHmm… that’s an interesting idea. Does anybody know if there is an option to do that through Network Solutions? That’s who I’ve been with for the past 4 years. I’m not necessarily opposed to switching to a new hosting provider, but that takes time and energy and we all know how that goes…
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Installing multiple independent wordpress sites in subdirectoriesI had originally considered setting up a Multisite. But the more I read about it the more it sounded like it was designed for a group of connected sites, or a situation where other people need to log in to the account and setup/maintain different sites.
These are three separate companies, separate customers, no shared information, and separate domain names (www.company1.com / http://www.company2.com / etc…). But all three will be maintained by me so I want to keep things as streamlined as possible. And I don’t want to pay for three separate hosting packages if I can help it.
I am not opposed to setting up a Multisite if that’s the best option. I just remember reading something where someone recommended using individual installs in individual subdirectories instead. I do like the idea of keeping all the files separate just for the sake of organizing each business individually. But I’m open to ideas if that’s not the best way to do this.
When I originally set it up there seemed to be a lot of issues getting WordPress to recognize the fact that the site was in a subfolder. That’s why I followed those instructions about copying the index.php and .htaccess files and putting them in the root, then modifying the copy of index.php to point it to the subfolder. That worked. But then I would need to do the same thing for my other companies, and then there would be 3 identically-named index.php and .htaccess files in the same place. Seems like that would cause a lot of problems.
Is there a way to do this and point each individual domain to a subfolder without copying the index.php file into the root? Like I said that didn’t seem to work for me originally.